Word: congress
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Gore has always approached foreign policy more with the passion of a crusader than with the calculation of a campaigner. From his first days in Congress, he devoted time and muscle to issues most lawmakers avoided as too complicated or politically expensive. The conviction that made him drag the spotlight onto Milosevic back then comes back to haunt him now, as the unfolding conflict inspires new Vietnam analogies every day, ones in which Gore plays Hubert Humphrey to Clinton's Lyndon Johnson. And yet rather than going AWOL, Gore has charged into the flames, touting himself as an "active participant...
...course, just having something warm running through her veins may be one reason Tipper, and not Al, had to be the one tagged with bringing the cold-blooded Coelho aboard. Coelho, after all, is a ferocious partisan, who took no prisoners in the Reagan years and resigned from Congress in 1989 rather than face questions about how he came to purchase on favorable terms a $100,000 junk bond from a Democratic donor. Gore is stalked by campaign-finance ghosts of his own, and so it will look a bit better if Coelho turns out to be Tipper's idea...
...people can rob, murder and displace another with impunity [WORLD, May 3]. Russia is another Slav nation, far more powerful, also chafing from its loss of empire. What lessons will it learn if nato fails to restore the Kosovar Albanians to their rightful homes? I am ashamed of Congress for its vote denying support. A victory is absolutely vital. GERALD K. MELIS Wardsboro...
...marriage has been in the spotlight since1996, when the Defense of Marriage Act was passedby Congress. This act denies federal recognitionof gay marriages, and permits states to ignore theunion of gay couples married in other states...
...want her to continue as party leader. "That image," adds Rahman, "had suffered a setback recently when she'd helped bring down the BJP government and was then unable to form a new one." In fact, says Rahman, "she's really angry and may agree only to campaign for Congress but not accept nomination for prime minister." That, of course, would allow her to serve as the party's kingmaker without muddying her sari in the rough-and-tumble of India's governance. And if she does agree to return, Congress will have had an opportunity to test public reaction...